Carlos Lopez-Cantera Quotes

The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.'

In ten years I will become president of the United States Of America.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

I'm not serving in office because I desperately needed 99 new friends in the U.S. Senate.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

My fate is to be President of the Republic - or leader of the opposition.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

When I was a young man, I used to dream maybe someday I could be an alderman. Instead of that I became an attorney general, a senator, a vice president, a Democratic nominee.

I never intended to become an opposition political leader. Perhaps the government wants to raise me up into one.

As I watched on TV the nest of reporters and groupies surround Palin at the Iowa State Fair, I couldn't help but sit back and wonder if she's become the ultimate party crasher for the Republican Party.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

Anybody having a chance to become President usually tries to do so.

When it comes to a mayor, they [the voters] often want whatever they haven’t just had.

Social change … almost inevitably leads to the rise of new political actors demanding a voice and a share of power.

I’m going to take Tennessee ideas to Washington and make them work for the country.

My program is simple. I want to govern.

You have to be a little bit crazy to run for the office of President…. It’s a job that you have to be totally consumed with, and that itself is somewhat crazy..

A man’s got to walk if he is going to be in politics.

I am continuing to explore a run in the Senate from Connecticut, absolutely exploring it. In fact, I would say exploring it intensely.

I have no political weight, and I haven't earned the right to launch some kind of political programme or stand as a candidate.

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.

This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.

A lot of people - a lot - have urged me to seek political office. All kinds of different jobs. Everybody has got a different idea for me, except all roads lead through my wife.